The second volume of papers commissioned by Foundations, a project designed to examine the career development needs of students entering the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, this document contains papers that deal with the instructional components of learning. An introduction presents a conceptual framework for the Foundations project, focusing on the interaction among the student, the teacher, and the content area being studied. Section I, on teacher roles and instructional strategies, includes the following three papers: "Primary Mentoring as a Teaching Strategy" (R. Hawkins); "Tutoring Special Students" (R. Osguthorpe); "Summary of Competency-Based Education, Mastery Learning and Individualization and Their Implications for the Foundations Program" (E. Nelson). Section II examines other critical considerations and includes the following papers: "The Theory of Experiential Learning (R. Kraft); "Experiential Learning as a Teaching Strategy for the Career Education of Hearing-Impaired College Students" (U. Whitaker); and "Multicultural Coping and Adaptation Competencies" (J. Wasilewski and J. Mitchel). (CL)